Bridle-bit



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

`EBEYEZER N. PRICE, OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS.

BRIDLE-IBI'I.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 11,083, dated June 13, 1854.

T0 all 'whom t may concern Be it known that I, EBENEZER N. Pinon, ofSalem, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have inventeda new and useful Improvement in Bits for Horses Bridles; and I do herebydeclare that the same is fully described and represented in thefollowing specification and the accompanying drawings, letters andfigures, and references thereof.

Of the said drawings, Figure 1, represents a top view; Fig. 2, a sideelevation, and Fig. 3, a perspective view of one of my improved bridlebits. 1

My improvement is applicable to the oominon sua-tHe bit as well as tovarious others.

It consists in extending from each of the bars o, a, of the bit a nipperor jaw, l), and so as to project rearward from the bar and against theside of the lower jaw or under lip of a horse when the bit is placed inhis mouth. i These nippers or jaws are short pieces of metal to be madegenerally about three inches in length, and they may be each providedwith an eye or hole, c, for the re-4 ception of a chain or a leatherstrap, cl, made to extend through both of the eyes and to have its endsconnected together by means of a buckle.

The bit shown in the drawings to which my improvement is applied is anordinary snatlie bit, having its two bars, a, a, hinged together as seenat, e. 4

In the use of my improved bit, the jaws or nippers lay closely againstand inclose the under jaw or under lip of the horse, so that when thebridle rein is pulled for the purpose of stopping the horse or arrestinghis motion, these nippers or bars by the leverage of the bit are crowdedor borne firmly operation as to arrest a horse` with' far greaterfacility and less liability of injury to the jaw than is the case withthe curb bit universally known.

The great superiority of my bit over the ordinary curb bit will bereadily discovered by any one by experimenting with them.

The object of the strap used in oonnectio-n with the nippers or jaws isto conne the bit inplace against the gum of a horse, or between the backand fore teeth of the under jawand so as to prevent him from workingitupward and seizing it between the back teeth o-f his jaws.

What I claim as my invent-ion isl.l The improvement of making the bit orproviding it with the nippers or jaws made to operate against the jaw orunder lip of a horse substantially as specified.

2. And in combination with the nippers or jaws, I claimthe strap asapplied to them and made to operate with them substantially asspecified; not meaning to claim a strap or its equivalent separate fromthe jaws; nor the application of such to the bars of a common bit, butmeaning to claim combining it directly with the nippers so as not onlyto keep them from spreading outward, but to preserve the bit in place,or prevent it from rising too high in the mouth of a horse essentiallyas specied.

vIn testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my signature this sixteenthday of March A. D. 1854.

EBENEZER N. PRICE.`

Vitnesses:

R. M. LE FAVOR, BENJN. F. BRowNE.

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